From the course: Video Gear: Lighting

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Lighting a cyc wall

Lighting a cyc wall

- Let's continue our conversation with Director of Photography, Kevin Bradley, and we're on a white cyc backdrop. - Yep. - Kevin, this is something that I've wanted for a long time, we just actually finish building this one and it's very exciting, why do you like having a white cyc? - Well, because it's permanent. - Yeah, and it looks good, right? - And it's big, a white cyc is the ultimate version of what we've been talking about, paper, flex fill type things that are white and black, those things are great, those things are not ideal. This is ideal. - Yeah, what we have here is a very large space, and it's deceptively large, because essentially with the curved wall behind us, as long as this lighting is even, you can't tell that that wall is 10 feet away or 100 feet away and this is great, it makes the space look larger. Now the way that this was all put together, we had affordablecycwall.com come in. We took measurements, we put the wall in, we've mudded it in with some plaster and…

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